Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School

Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School is a cozy K-5 school in Destrehan, Louisiana, operated by St. Charles Parish. The school serves 381 students in grades 3 through 5.

Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School is one of 15 schools operated by St. Charles Parish, a district that enrolls 8,756 students overall.

On demographics, Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 27% Black, 12% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.3%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for St. Charles Parish put median household earnings sit near $80,897, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, St. Charles Parish runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,756 students), of which Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School is one.

New Sarpy Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 40.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School has shrank 16%, going from 453 students in 2018 to 381 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 34% to 27%. Class-load math has fell: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 in 2025.

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